1st Edition
The History of the Company, Part II vol 8 Development of the Business Corporation, 1700-1914
478 Pages
by
Routledge
Explores the changing economic, social and political role of the Anglo-American firm. Focusing on its formative development between the later 17th and the early 20th centuries, the editors bring together a collection which employs selected documents and analytical commentary to illustrate the external role of the firm and public perceptions of it.
Volume 8: Exit and Death, Robert Russell Notman, Railway Amalgamation (1852) Remarks on the Expediency of some of the Private Banks of London Being Formed into Joint-Stock Companies (1856) How to Mismanage a Bank: A Review of the Western Bank of Scotland (1859) Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation, Contract between the Boston & Lowell and Nashua & Lowell Railroad Corporations (1877) Overend, Gurney and Co. (Limited), Report of the Committee of the Defence Association (1867) Robert Crawford, Letter to the Policy-Holders and Annuitants of the European Assurance Society, by a former Director (1871) B. Haughton, Railway Amalgamation (1872) Robert Benson, The Amalgamation of Railway Companies; or the Alternative of Their Purchase by the State Considered (1872) Index
Biography
Robin Pearson, James Taylor, Mark Freeman
